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Atkins yielded to nature, and was violently sick at the sight he had searched for so eagerly. He also sent a messenger to Mr. Houseman, telling him the corpus delicti was found. He did this, partly to show that gentleman he was right in his judgment, and partly out of common humanity; since, after this discovery, Mr. Houseman's client was sure to be tried for her life.
And what ties are strong enough to arrest the steps of him who flies from a fearful death? Am I using sophistry here, Houseman? Have I not reason on my side?" "What you say is true enough," said Houseman reluctantly; "I do not gainsay it.
Houseman, and addressed them as follows: "I believe he is alive, and that I can guess where he is at this moment." Both the gentlemen started, and looked amazed. "Yes, sirs; so sure as we sit here, he is now at a little inn in Lancashire, called the 'Packhorse, with a woman he calls his wife." And, with this, her face was scarlet, and her eyes flashed their old fire.
"My reason for calling on you was this," renewed the Clergyman, addressing the host: "you knew Houseman formerly; me he always shunned, and, I fancy, ridiculed. He is in distress now, and all that is forgotten. Will you seek him, and inquire if any thing in my power can afford him consolation? He may be poor: I can pay for the poor child's burial. I loved her; she was the best girl at Mrs.
Houseman implored her not to heed Sir George and his vagaries, but to bend her whole mind on those approved modes of defence with which he had supplied her. Being now alone with her, he no longer concealed his great anxiety. "We have lost an invaluable witness in that woman," said he. "I was mad to think she would come." Mrs. Gaunt shivered with repugnance.
She spent the early part of the night in studying her defence. Then she laid it quite aside, and prayed long and fervently. Towards morning she fell asleep from exhaustion. When she awoke, Mrs. Houseman was sitting by her bedside, looking at her, and crying. They were soon clasped in each other's arms, condoling. But presently Houseman came, and took his wife away rather angrily. Mrs.
I bound him thereto by the strongest ties. Nay, so disinterestedly, so truly did I love Madeline, that I would not wed while I thought this danger could burst upon me. I believed that, before my marriage day, Houseman had left the country. It was not so, Fate ordered otherwise.
What, Houseman, are you bent upon your own destruction, as well as mine, that you persevere in courses which must end in a death of shame?" "What else can I do? I will not work, and I cannot live like you in a lone wilderness on a crust of bread. Nor is my name like yours, mouthed by the praise of honest men: my character is marked; those who once knew me, shun now.
"Now that we are on good terms," replied Houseman, "I will not scruple to oblige you in these particulars. My comrades intend to quit the country before to-morrow; nay, half are already gone; by daybreak I myself will be some miles hence, and separated from each of them. Let us meet in London after the business is completed, and there conclude our last interview on earth."
Houseman uttered a quick exclamation; the door was hastily unbarred All within was utterly dark; but Aram felt with a thrill of repugnance, the gripe of his strange acquaintance on his hand. "Ha! it is you! Come in, come in! let me lead you. Have a care cling to the wall the right hand now then stay. And, how goes it eh!"
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